Summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of integration of active and passive optical transmission antenna for base station of installing of being convenient to, solve the technical problem that how to make the antenna for base station expansion and do not affect the existing network business.The invention provides a kind of integrated base station antenna, described antenna for base station includes source antenna part, passive antenna part and connector; Described active antenna part and antenna cover of passive antenna partial common; Described active antenna part and passive antenna partly are arranged side by side, and the surface of the surface of described active antenna part and described passive antenna part is substantially parallel, and described active antenna part and passive antenna part are fixed as one by described connector.
Preferably, passive antenna partly comprises passive antenna reflecting plate, passive antenna radiating element, passive antenna power splitter, passive antenna phase shifter, passive antenna drive mechanism, passive antenna radio-frequency joint, and described passive antenna radiating element, passive antenna power splitter, passive antenna phase shifter, passive antenna drive mechanism, passive antenna radio-frequency joint are installed on reflecting plate.
Preferably, the width of described passive antenna reflecting plate is between the 0.7-1.1 of work centre frequency wavelength, described passive antenna radiating element is coaxial to be set in qually spaced on the length direction of described passive antenna reflecting plate, and described spacing is between the 0.7-0.9 of work centre frequency wavelength.
Preferably, active antenna partly includes source antenna reflecting plate, active antenna radiating element, active antenna power division network unit, active antenna calibration network unit, active antenna radio-frequency joint, and described active antenna radiating element, active antenna power division network unit, active antenna calibration network unit, active antenna radio-frequency joint are arranged on described active antenna reflecting plate.
Preferably, the width of described active antenna reflecting plate is between the 0.75-1.25 of work centre frequency wavelength, described active antenna radiating element is coaxial to be set in qually spaced on the length direction of described active antenna reflecting plate, and described spacing is between the 0.7-0.9 of work centre frequency wavelength.
Preferably, described active antenna radiating element adopts the n-point feed paster vibrator, and described active antenna radiating element adopts individual layer paster or double-layer paster.
Preferably, described active antenna radiating element adopts 3 feeds or four-point feed.
Preferably, described active antenna power division network unit comprises feed tab, micro-band matching section and microstrip power divider, described feed tab, micro-band matching section and microstrip power divider form as one, and described active antenna power division network unit and described active antenna assembly of radiating elements are at the homonymy of described source antenna reflecting plate.
Preferably, described active antenna calibration network comprises coupler and power splitter, and described coupler is connected with described power splitter; Described power splitter is one minute N road, and described coupler is N, the number of the output that N is described active antenna power division network.
Preferably, the output of described active antenna power division network is connected by transmission line with an end of the described coupler of described active antenna calibration network, an other end of described coupler is connected with the described power splitter of described active antenna calibration network, and the described power splitter of described active antenna calibration network is connected by transmission line with described active antenna radio-frequency joint.
Compared with prior art, advantage of the present invention is, because active antenna and passive antenna have adopted respectively relatively independent oscillator and network, and adopted parallel mode combination arranged side by side, influencing each other between upper minimizing two antennas, guarantee electrical performance indexes separately to greatest extent; Expanded the scope of application of antenna by active antenna and passive antenna integrated setting, low cost realizes multiband Multi-Mode Base Station equipment.
And, passive antenna is according to main flow passive antenna standard design, can directly replace the existing network antenna, do not affect the existing network business, and the active antenna scheme is that the radio frequency part of antenna for base station is focused on to the antenna multichannel radio frequency of inner employing and the cooperation of antenna a period of time, the implementation space beam forming, complete the transmitting-receiving of radiofrequency signal.By the difference to AAE active antenna element configuration, with the wave beam of realizing the practical communication networking, control flexibly and the function such as MIMO, realize dynamic resource allocation and shared more flexibly, to reach the target of the whole network best performance and lower fullnet networking cost.
Embodiment
In order to make purpose of the present invention, technical scheme and advantage clearer, below in conjunction with drawings and Examples, the present invention is further elaborated.Should be appreciated that specific embodiment described herein, only in order to explain the present invention, is not intended to limit the present invention.Below in conjunction with concrete accompanying drawing, realization of the present invention is described in detail.
The overall structure stereogram that Fig. 1 is embodiment of the present invention integration of active and passive optical transmission antenna for base station embodiment.Mainly comprise as shown in Figure 1 passive antenna 1, active antenna 2, the first connector 3, the second connector 4.Passive antenna 1 and active antenna 2 share an antenna cover, passive antenna 1 is arranged side by side with active antenna 2, and passive antenna 1 is substantially parallel with the surface of active antenna 2, it should be noted that, be arranged side by side and be common implication side by side, refer to that the direction that passive antenna 1 and active antenna 2 spatially extend is basic identical, in passive antenna 1 and active antenna 2, the size of a direction (Figure 1 shows that above-below direction) is significantly less than the size of two other direction, passive antenna 1 is approximately a long slab with active antenna 2, the surface of passive antenna 1 and active antenna 2 just refers to maximum area, also be perpendicular to the one side of minimum dimension, it is also the surface in definition usually, rather than side, as shown in Figure 1, be upper and lower surface, substantially parallel referring to needn't strictly be defined as 90 degree, but while arranging again in the left and right certain limits of 90 degree, active antenna 2 and passive antenna 1 have reached the degree be independent of each other, can think substantially parallel.Described active antenna part and passive antenna part are fixed as one by described connector; Preferably, in Fig. 1, the first and second connectors 3 and 4 are connecting plate, are arranged on the two ends of the length direction on active antenna 2, and this preferred setting position is conducive to active antenna 2 and fixing the stablizing of passive antenna 1.Passive antenna 1 and active antenna 2 share an antenna cover.Described connecting plate 3 and 4 can be metal or nonmetallic materials according to the actual needs, is preferably aluminium.With bolts or the adhesives of connecting plate and active antenna or passive antenna.
Fig. 2 is the structural perspective of embodiment of the present invention passive antenna.As shown in Figure 1, this passive antenna mainly comprises reflecting plate 11, vibrator component 12, phase shifter package 13, barrier assembly 14, connector assembly 15, transmission component 16.Described reflecting plate 11 is for reflecting signal of communication, make signal there is directivity, simultaneously for vibrator component 12, barrier assembly 14, phase shifter package 13, transmission component 16 are installed, connector assembly 15, reflecting plate 11 has certain overall width, and its overall width is preferably 0.7~1.1 wavelength between the work centre frequency; Described vibrator component 12 forms the passive antenna radiating element, for emission or receiving communication signal, a plurality of described vibrator component 12 are coaxial equidistantly to be arranged on the length direction of reflecting plate 11, and the 0.7-0.9 that the spacing between adjacent two vibrator component 12 is its work centre frequency corresponding wavelength doubly.It should be noted that, the length of reflecting plate 11 is identical with the definition of common length, width, thickness with the definition of Width, specifically, the thickness of reflecting plate is very little, be approximated to a rectangle, the direction of length direction digital reflex board size maximum, the direction that Width digital reflex board size is second largest.Barrier assembly 14 forms the passive antenna power splitter, for realizing the distribution of amplitude and phase place; Phase shifter package 13 changes for the phase place that realizes each delivery outlet, has the function of amplitude distribution simultaneously; Transmission component 16 is for realizing the accurate control to phase shifter; Connector assembly 15 forms the passive antenna radio-frequency joint, for connecting feeder line, and transmitting radio frequency signal, phase shifter package 13 is arranged in reflecting plate 11 fronts and/or reverse side, by transmission component 16, drives phase shifter package 13 motions, realizes the lower decline angle adjustment.
Fig. 3 is the structural perspective of embodiment of the present invention active antenna.As shown in Figure 3, reflecting plate 21 is for reflecting signal of communication, make signal there is directivity, for source antenna radiating element 23, active antenna power division network unit 21, active antenna calibration network unit (not shown), active antenna radio-frequency joint (not shown) are installed, the overall width of reflecting plate 21 is between 0.75~1.25 wavelength of work centre frequency simultaneously.Vibrator component 23 forms the active antenna radiating element, for emission or receiving communication signal, described vibrator component 23 is individual layer or double-layer paster oscillator, adopt or 4 coupling feeds at 3, be preferably 3 coupling feed double-layer paster oscillators, between described vibrator component, equidistantly arrange in twos, the 0.7-0.9 that the spacing between adjacent two vibrator component 23 is its work centre frequency corresponding wavelength doubly.Feeding network 22 forms active antenna power division network unit, be used for to active antenna radiating element feed, coupling standing wave, and distribute weights to each radiating element, feeding network 22 comprises oscillator feed tab, micro-band matching section and microstrip power divider, with assembly of radiating elements at the reflecting plate homonymy, being preferably oscillator feed tab, micro-band matching section and microstrip power divider is overall structure, and described feeding network 22 can be any one distribution in one-to-two to minute infinity; Active antenna calibration network unit, for amplitude and the phase place of calibrating each road active signal, described active antenna calibration network unit, comprise coupler and power splitter, coupler is connected with power splitter, and both can form as one and also can form separately independently separate part, and power splitter is one minute N road, coupler is N, and N is total number that extraction slit is arranged; The active antenna radio-frequency joint, for being connected with source device, transmitting radio frequency signal, the radio-frequency joint of described active antenna, can be the centralized distribution of integral body, also can distribute for the concentration of local formula.Vibrator component 23 along the length direction equidistant placement of reflecting plate in reflecting plate 21 fronts; Wherein the definition of the length of reflecting plate 21 and Width is identical with the definition of common length, width, thickness, specifically, the thickness of reflecting plate is very little, is approximated to a rectangle, the direction of length direction digital reflex board size maximum, the direction that Width digital reflex board size is second largest.Feeding network 22 is arranged in the reflecting plate front, feeding network 22 is positioned at vibrator component 23 belows, and the microstrip power divider of feeding network 22 can realize that N(N is integer, N >=1) individual oscillator merit divides, each feeding network 22 has two outputs, and directly output is as the output port of active antenna.The output of described feeding network 22 is connected by transmission line with the described coupler of described active antenna calibration network, the other end of coupler is connected with the power splitter of described active antenna calibration network, and the power splitter of described active antenna calibration network is connected by transmission line with described active antenna radio-frequency joint.
Integrated base station antenna of the present invention is combined into one active antenna and passive antenna, thereby can utilize fully the function of active antenna and passive antenna, the function of extended base station antenna and coverage.And because active antenna and passive antenna adopt relatively independent oscillator and network, and adopted parallel mode combination arranged side by side, can be have to greatest extent above reduced influencing each other between two antennas, guaranteed electrical performance indexes separately.And, because integral antenna of the present invention has comprised passive antenna, thereby can make the business of applying existing network still can use.
In the present invention further optimizes improvement, active antenna adopts the design of n-point feed paster vibrator can realize good cross polarization and isolation index, adopt feed tab, oscillator matching section, power splitter integrated design and in the positive layout of reflecting plate, can realize minimum dimension and the minimum weight of antenna, also can eliminate the impact of active equipment on the active antenna network stabilization; Carry out the integrated emulation of vertical plane in conjunction with active algorithm, determine the power splitter method of salary distribution and power splitter weights separately, can guarantee the optimum state of each frequency, each carrier wave excipient under 0~20 ° of electrical tilt angle.
The foregoing is only preferred embodiment of the present invention, not in order to limit the present invention, all any modifications of doing within the spirit and principles in the present invention, be equal to and replace and improvement etc., within all should being included in protection scope of the present invention.